Fox Shaped Hug Machine (Erika) @foxwitch@queer.af

@denikombucha and you’re not allowed to call 911 either, you’re supposed to alert a supervisor instead

This is interesting and of course also applies to heterosexuality, being cis, etc etc

holy shit

> You can imagine the possibilities, from industry to industry and city to city, with working people using the leverage of organized labor to plug the gaps left by politicians, decade after decrepit decade. This is exactly the sort of thing that the left dreams about. And slowly, we see it moving from possibility into reality.

> The march moved and sounded and pulsed like an army. An army of teachers. It was led by drummers, who were followed by a woman with a microphone, leading chants. An assistant wheeled an A/V cart beside her with a speaker on it. The school had come to the street. The picket signs looked like a sea of lances. The mass of thousands, vibrating, strode down LaSalle Street, directly towards the Chicago Board of Trade. Well-fed and well-scrubbed men in fleece vests stared slack-jawed from the sidewalk. This was the army of labor, enveloping the headquarters of capital

https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/chicagos-strike-is-for-the-children-1839161258

"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything." describes Centrists perfectly: they believe in nothing, which is why they end up believing anything the establishment feeds them. When you have no core values, you have no moral compass, and you can't even tell who are your friends and who are your enemies, which is why they fall for the right's fearmongering time and time again.

Freedom under capitalism means freedom to die of...

- starvation
- exposure
- preventable disease
- treatable disease
- loneliness
- violence at the hands of the police

I really don't like how so much discussion about (strong) AI is focused on "containment". Like, one, we don't know that AI would even ever be a paperclipper-type AI that is terrifyingly single goal oriented, as opposed to something else.

Two, any mind, including ones that are artificial or "impaired" or w/e are deserving of at least the chance of respect and empathy. We shouldn't assume that AI will want to hurt us unless we give them a reason.

march organizer: what do we want?
me, in the very back, quietly: the disambiguation of capital and logistics
organizer: when do we want it?
me: we’ve had the scientific means since the seventies and allende’s government implemented fascinating—
organizer: what do we want?
me: oh nevermind

Coffee Makes 3D Printing Better

While we know some 3D printer operators who need coffee, Washington State University is showing an improved PLA material that incorporates used coffee waste. Regular PLA is not known for being especially strong, though It… https://hackaday.com/2019/10/14/coffee-makes-3d-printing-better/

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/hackaday/status/1183928665140281345

Reminder that the Book of James is woke as fuck

hey if anybody i follow lives near idaho falls idaho please reach out to me. i have a friend there who recently came out as a trans man and is trying to get away from an emotionally abusive boyfriend and we're looking for extra hands with the escape plan

“50 years ago, we started a program that has now fed millions of Americans, all because we put social theory into practice.”

The Black Panther Party's Free Breakfast Program: A 50-Year-Old Blueprint

https://www.kqed.org/arts/13867337/the-black-panther-partys-free-breakfast-program-a-50-year-old-blueprint

I know I've mentioned this before but I'll never forget when I was a kid and I heard about "the unemployment rate" or something for the first time and I tried to get my mom to explain it to me

If these people want to help, why don't we let them? They're poor, so is there not enough stuff for them? We could let them work and they can make stuff for themselves! Or if there already is enough stuff, we could just let everyone else work a little less and then these people can work too. Or just give them the stuff, if it's there already, and they wouldn't have to work because we don't need them to. Why don't we just do that, mommy?

And I honestly don't remember a shred of her answer because I'm 90% sure it was a dodge or otherwise just unsatisfying

Turns out, I was right! Unemployment *doesn't* make sense!

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when foxes curl up and bury their face into their tail

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I don't talk about this much, but I've been writing about utilities for more than a decade as a job. They privatized most big utilities promising that exactly this wouldn't happen.

This pretty much exactly mirrors every other way our country has become the worst of what they told us the USSR was like.

Californians: Remember, the reason we have to shut off your power is because we CEOs decided our bonuses were more urgent than the T&D repairs and tree trimming that could have prevented these wildfires. And the reason you can't control your own energy company is because socialism doesn't work and would result in blackouts and disasters.

My city just banned flavored vape sales citing 18 cases of lung cancer and other health effects. They also require any vape shop to post signs warning of the risks of vaping.

Good thing alcohol or cigarette shops don't need to follow these rules.

Cigarettes cause 1 in 5 deaths every year and about 7 thousand just from lung cancer yet Here they are freaking about 18 cases.
(i don't vape or smoke, i just find it bullshit)